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The ebooks I buy are immediately stripped of drm and dumped into calibre. It's not the prettiest software in the world, but it works and the ebooks are mine forever no matter what happens to amazon, google, apple, or kobo, and they're trivially transferable. I will not buy ebooks from a store that uses DRM that's not immediately removable.

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We are developing a platform that can be used as a Calibre alternative to organize, read, make highlights, bookmarks and notes and have them synced across all devices.

Check us out at https://bookfusion.com/ . We will be releasing an updated Android app and our IOS app soon. Feel free to send us some feedback at dc@bookfusion.com

Does it read all the formats that Calibre supports and convert between them? That's the use case for Calibre - and where most alternatives fall down.

We read all formats that Calibre support. We support natively EPUB and PDF. All other formats are converted to EPUB.

How can I reach you to discuss further ?

My Calibre library is 2 gigs. Do you really want me to upload 2 gigs?

Is there an offline mode? How do I access my books if there isn't?

Yes we want you to upload the 2 gig. We are a Dropbox for books with the added benefit of a single application to read multiple formats.

Our apps work both offline and online. You have the option to sync all books or only the top X most recently read.

Are you IOS or Android ?

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